The transition to a more resilient and sustainable agri-food system depends in large part on the ability to make better use of existing and unlocking new financial incentives to drive and sustain the transition. Between late 2024 and the Summer of 2025, the Forum for the Future of Agriculture, together with its partners and stakeholders, explored through a series of workshops the opportunities and challenges in doing this and how to take a systemic approach to financing the transition.

This new report reflects our discussions and the ideas which emerged.

In the months to come, the Forum will seek to deepen its thinking on many of the ideas, which emerged from our workshops on how to take a systemic approach to financing the transition. Whilst we do not suggest that our thinking and ideas are definitive, or even represent a formal position of the Forum, we do hope that they will be considered by all stakeholders and be an enduring and valuable contribution to the vitally important effort to finance the transition to more resilient and sustainable agri-food system. As we do so, we shall obviously take account the future detail which emerges on the Multi-annual Financial Framework and the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and their impact on the transition of the agrifood system.